An Akron judge sentenced Richard Beasley on Thursday. The jury that convicted him of murder recommended that he face execution.

Beasley was convicted of teaming up with a teenager in 2011 to lure men with offers of farmhand jobs in southeast Ohio. Three men, including 51-year-old David Pauley of Norfolk, Va., were killed. Scott Davis of South Carolina survived an attack.

The co-defendant, then 16, was too young to face the death penalty. Brogan Rafferty was sentenced to life in prison without the chance of parole on his conviction last year.